Samuel Edwards

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Maureen Withey on 11th October 2022

List of 80 male convicts (originally sent on Guildford 1812) be embarked per Ruby of Calcutta to Hobart Town, with the indents from Guildford, master Johnson, in 1812. https://stors.tas.gov.au/CON13-1-1$init=CON13-1-1P23 Saml. Edwards, tried London G.D., 20 Feb 1811, Life.

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Ron Garbutt on 22nd September 2022

Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 22 September 2022), February 1811, trial of SAMUEL EDWARDS (t18110220-34). SAMUEL EDWARDS, Theft > burglary, 20th February 1811. 214. SAMUEL EDWARDS was indicted for burglariously breaking and entering the dwelling-house of William Leland , about the hour of seven at night, on the 17th of January , and stealing a looking glass, value 20 s. his property . WILLIAM LELAND . I am a labourer in the East India Company warehouse, I live at No. 13, Montague Court, in the parish of St. Botolph, Bishopgate . On Sunday the 17th of January, about half past four in the afternoon, I left my house, the looking glass was in the parlour on the ground floor, the window comes into the court. MARIA LELAND . I am the daughter of the last witness. We were in the kitchen at tea, we heard a noise in the parlour, we went up stairs and opened the street door, we found the parlour sash throwed open, the curtains undrawn, and the glass was gone. Q. Which way did they come into the room. - A. Through the window. Q. Did you see the window after your husband. - A. Yes, the window was shut down, but not fastened. WILLIAM FRICKER . I am a musician, I lodge with William Leland . I was down stairs at tea with Mrs. Leland and daughter about half past six, I heard a noise in the parlour as if some one had jumped in. I went up stairs, I found the parlour window throwed open, and the glass gone. ELEANOR LELAND . I am the wife of William Leland , we were at tea in the kitchen. At half past six, or somewhere thereabouts, we heard a noise over head, in the parlour, we went up stairs and opened the street door, we saw the sash throwed up, and the curtain drawed of one side, and the glass was gone. Q. Why do you accuse the prisoner of taking it. - A. It was found upon him by Mr. Sapwell. THOMAS SAPWELL . I am an officer. On Sunday night, about half past six, I was in Bishopgate Street, I met the prisoner with this glass under his arm, I asked him what he had got, he told me a glass, he was going to get it new framed, I told him I thought it very odd to get a glass framed of a Sunday night, I took him into a house, I searched him, and found a crow and two picklock keys, and two or three matches upon him, I secured him and took him to the Compter. The prosecutor applied to me the same night, saying that he had been robbed of a glass, I never let him see the glass till he came before the Lord Mayor, there he described the glass, and claimed it as his property. Here is a nail with which the glass was fastened, I found it on the glass. Q. How far is this court from where you stopped the prisoner. - A. About fifty yards. Prosecutrix. I know the glass to be my husband's property, we have had it between twenty and thirty years. Prisoner's Defence. On Sunday I was out drinking all day, on my coming home at night, I met a man whom I formerly knew, he asked me if I would take a few things home with me, which was a glass, twokeys, and a piece of iron about a foot long, he said he was going to have his things seized for rent, I consented, and was stopped by the officer and sent to the Compter. This is the first time I ever was tried, I am innocent of what I am charged with. GUILTY , DEATH , aged 28. London jury, before Mr. Recorder. https://www.oldbaileyonline.org/print.jsp?div=t18110220-34